Society of Text - Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information

This collection of essays continues the investigations into implementing networked online systems described in Barrett's first book, Text, Context, and Hyper Text, with a more focused emphasis on specific hypermedia systems. The 22 essays, organized in four parts, take up designing hypertext and hypermedia systems for the online user, textual intervention and collaboration, new roles for writers, and sensemaking and learning in the online environment.

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About the author

Carol Armstrong is Doris Stevens Professor of Women's Studies in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. She is the author of Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 (MIT Press, 1998).

Summary

This collection of essays continues Barrett's investigations into implementing networked online systems described in his first book Text, ConText, and HyperText, with a more focused emphasis on specific hypermedia systems.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Barrett, Edward (Senior Lecturer in Writing Barrett, Direc
• Assisted by: Edward Barrett (Editor), Edward (Senior Lecturer in Writing; Director Barrett (Editor), Michael Lesk (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.1991
• EAN: 9780262521611
• ISBN: 978-0-262-52161-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Digital Communication; Digital Communication
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system